When you want to get in touch with a contact, your phone can help you pick the best method. If yourcontact is signed in to a chat service, you can start chatting. Otherwise, you can send a text messageinstead.If you make contact groups containing, for example, family or colleagues, you can send a messageto a group.In the messaging settings, you can set your phone to back up your messages to SkyDrive. If youchange to a new Windows Phone device, you can get your messages to your new phone during thesetup.You can send text messages that are longer than the character limit for a single message. Longermessages are sent as two or more messages. Your service provider may charge accordingly.Characters with accents, other marks, or some language options, take more space, and limit thenumber of characters that can be sent in a single message.Using services or downloading content may cause the transfer of large amounts of data, which mayresult in data costs.Send a messageWith text and multimedia messages, you can quickly contact your friends and family.If you start writing a message, and switch to another app before sending it, you can continue yourmessage when you return to Messaging. Tap > drafts. The draft message is deleted when sent.1. Tap Messaging.2. Tap .3. To add a recipient from your contacts list, tap , or start writing a name. You can also type in aphone number.Tip: To add several recipients, tap > , the recipients you want, and .4. Tap the message box, and write your message.Tip: To add a smiley, tap .5. To add an attachment, tap and the file.Tip: You can also take a new photo while writing your message. Tap picture > , take a photo,and tap accept.If the item you insert in a multimedia message is too large for the network, the device mayautomatically reduce the size.6. To send the message, tap .Only compatible devices can receive and show multimedia messages. Messages may look differentin different devices.Read a messageYou can see on the start screen when you've received a message.You can view the messages between you and a contact in one conversation thread. The thread cancontain text messages, multimedia messages, and chats.© 2013 Nokia. All rights reserved. 51